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Volume 328:105 January 14, 1993 Number 2
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Sickle Cell Anemia

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  		Figure 1. Sickle Cell Anemia.

Scanning electron microscopy shows numerous sickled erythrocytes in a peripheral-blood specimen from a 21-year-old black woman with sickle cell anemia who was admitted to the hospital with acute chest and abdominal pain (x1380).

 


Donald C. Doll, M.D.
Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital
Columbia, MO 65201



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